News · 15 October 2025

Garbage Announce Australian and New Zealand Headline Shows

The alt-rock icons are performing in Adelaide this December.

After much speculation, alt-rock icons Garbage have announced a run of Australia and New Zealand shows taking place in December.

The quartet of Shirley Manson, Duke Erikson, Steve Market and Butch Vig are touring in support of their 2025 album, Let All That We Imagine Be The Light. The tour will mark the band’s first headline shows in Australia since 2016, and their first appearance in Auckland since 2013.

“To be able to return to sacred, stunning New Zealand and to Australia – the home country of our most beloved music business guru, Michael Gudinski – is an immense thrill for us as a band. We have been aching to return to this part of the world for a long time now and this tour will be played every night in Gudinski’s honour,” says Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson.

In the country as part of Good Things 2025, Garbage have locked in four headline theatre concerts, beginning in New Zealand at Auckland Town Hall on Wednesday 3 December. The band then make their way to Australia for gigs at Melbourne’s Palais Theatre on Thursday 11 December, Adelaide’s Thebarton Theatre on Friday 12 December and Sydney’s Opera House Concert Hall on Sunday 14 December.

Frontier Members pre-sale starts Tuesday 21 October at 10am AEST, with general on-sale taking place on Wednesday 22 October at 1pm AEST. For full ticking information, visit frontiertouring.com.

Formed in Madison, Wisconsin, Garbage have been out there getting it done for an incredible 30 years. Their self-titled debut album rocketed to #1 on the NZ Album Chart and made it as high as #4 on the AIRA Album Chart.

Garbage have gone on to sell over 20 million albums and are responsible for a catalogue of era-defining hits, including ‘Only Happy When It Rains’, ‘Stupid Girl’, ‘When I Grow Up’, ‘No Gods No Masters’, ‘I Think I’m Paranoid’, ‘Vow’ and latgest single, ‘There’s No Future In Optimism’.

The track is taken from the band’s eighth studio album, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light, which Manson explains is “about what it means to be alive, and about what it means to face your imminent destruction. It’s hopeful. It’s very tender towards what it means to be a human being. Our flaws and our failures are still beautiful, even though we’re taught that they’re not… This is a tender, thrilling record about the fragility of life.”

Catch Garbage at Thebarton Theatre on Friday 12 December. For ticketing information, visit frontiertouring.com.